The broadcast services department of Purdue Athletics earned the Broadcast Educators Association's distinct honor for "Live Broadcast of the Year" at the 2025 Media Arts Festival Sunday in Las Vegas.
The winning broadcast occurred on May 4, 2024 and featured Purdue Baseball vs. Indiana at Alexander Field. The production crew consisted of nine undergraduate students from Purdue's B1G Network Student U program as well as two faculty advisors.
The broadcast was selected by a national panel of judges as the best live production from a pool of dozens of entries. The 23rd Annual Media Arts Festival had 2,285 entries from more than 300 colleges and universities. It is the first BEA Award for the Purdue Broadcast group and the first Live Broadcast of the Year award for a B1G Network Student U program.
Purdue's Student U program is the product of a partnership between the B1G Network, Purdue Athletics and the Division of Film and Video in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance. The program consists of 40-50 undergraduate students each semester who produce upwards of 90 live events per year, under the tutelage of program director Cory Palm and associate director McCarty Cummings.
"The collaborative partnership between the Rueff School, Purdue Athletics and the Big Ten Network is what makes our program so special," said Palm. "The experiential learning done by students in this program is so valuable to them and so rewarding for us to see each semester. I'm glad to see the students get recognized for all their hard work"
Gavin Murray, a senior in the program who was the producer for the award-winning show, says the program has been invaluable to his college experience.
"I can't image four years of college at Purdue without the Student U program," said the Organizational Leadership major. "It has allowed me to not only pursue my professional aspirations, but also to grow as an individual and a leader."
The winning broadcast occurred on May 4, 2024 and featured Purdue Baseball vs. Indiana at Alexander Field. The production crew consisted of nine undergraduate students from Purdue's B1G Network Student U program as well as two faculty advisors.
The broadcast was selected by a national panel of judges as the best live production from a pool of dozens of entries. The 23rd Annual Media Arts Festival had 2,285 entries from more than 300 colleges and universities. It is the first BEA Award for the Purdue Broadcast group and the first Live Broadcast of the Year award for a B1G Network Student U program.
Purdue's Student U program is the product of a partnership between the B1G Network, Purdue Athletics and the Division of Film and Video in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance. The program consists of 40-50 undergraduate students each semester who produce upwards of 90 live events per year, under the tutelage of program director Cory Palm and associate director McCarty Cummings.
"The collaborative partnership between the Rueff School, Purdue Athletics and the Big Ten Network is what makes our program so special," said Palm. "The experiential learning done by students in this program is so valuable to them and so rewarding for us to see each semester. I'm glad to see the students get recognized for all their hard work"
Gavin Murray, a senior in the program who was the producer for the award-winning show, says the program has been invaluable to his college experience.
"I can't image four years of college at Purdue without the Student U program," said the Organizational Leadership major. "It has allowed me to not only pursue my professional aspirations, but also to grow as an individual and a leader."